Perspective and perspectivation in discourse / edited by Carl F. Graumann, Werner Kallmeyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Graumann, Carl F. (Carl Friedrich), 1923-

Kallmeyer, Werner.

Series:

Human cognitive processing ; v. 9.

Human cognitive processing, 1387-6724 ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Perspective (Linguistics).

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

vi, 400 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2002.

Summary:

'Perspective' and 'viewpoint' are widely used in everyday talk as well as in the specialist languages of the social, cognitive, and literary sciences. Taken from the field of visual perception and representation, these concepts have acquired a general meaning and significance, as characteristics of human cognitive processing. Since, however, this field is shared by an increasing body of disciplines, perspective terms have also acquired specific and technical meanings. A striking example is the newly introduced use of 'perspectivation' in discourse analysis.This volume on 'perspective and perspectivation' - the first of its kind - will help to fill the gap between the common understanding of perspective and the specifics of its structure and dynamics as they have been elaborated in the human sciences, mainly in psychology and linguistics. The focus is on the structure of perspectivity in cognition and language, and the dynamics of setting and taking perspectives in social interaction and in the construction and understanding of texts. Both topics are presented here in an interdisciplinary way by a group of linguists and psychologists.

Contents:

Perspective and Perspectivation in Discourse

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Perspective and perspectivation in discourse. An introduction

Part A: Perspectivity: Structure and functions

Knowledge and perspective setting. What possible consequences on conversation do we have to expect?

Explicit and implicit perspectivity

Perspectives, implicitness and recontextualization

Quaestio and L-perspectivation

Grammaticalization of perspectivity

Part B: Perspectivation in discourse and interaction

Verbal practices of perspective grounding

Perspectivity and professional role in verbal interaction

"You can say you to yourself". Establishing perspectives with personal pronouns

Strategic uses of self and other perspectives

Irony, quotation, and other forms of staged intertextuality. Double or contrastive perspectivation in conversation

Part C: Perspectivity: Differences and divergences

Social discrimination and aggression. A matter of perspective-specific divergence?

Perspective-related differences in interpretations of injustice in close relationships

Perspectivity in dialogues involving people with cerebral palsy

Perspective-dependent attributions in court. An investigation into closing speeches with the Linguistic Category Model

Part D: Perspectivity in reconstructive genres

Point of view, narrative mode and the constitution of narrative texts

Global and local aspects of perspectivity

Perspectivity in reported dialogues. The contextualization of evaluative stances in reconstructing speech

The role of the narrative perspective in the cognitive-cultural context

Author index

Subject index

In the series HUMAN COGNITIVE PROCESSING (HCP).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612161537

9781282161535

1282161539

9789027296931

9027296936

OCLC:

70769069